Surgical appliance.



H. A. DYGERT.

SURGICAL APPLIANCE.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 8, 191 5.

Patented Apr. 3,1917.

JWWWMP HENRY ARTHUR DYGERT, 0F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

SURGICAL APPLIANCE.

restate, Speoificati Application filed October 8, 1915. Serial No.54,879.

organ, or. penis, prior to and during coition,

with the result of imparting added vigor to the organ and promoting andintensifying its normal function during sexual intercourse, thusinsuring mutual satisfaction to the performers, even when the male is ofadvanced years.

Referring to the drawings which accompany this specification as anindispensable part of it,

Figures I and II represent integral parts of the invention, and arecalled herein respectively loop and sheath.

Fig. III shows the complete appliance, being a combination of Figs. Iand II, with sheath in position on the loop.

Fig. IV is the same as Fig. III, excepting that the sheath is reversedand withdrawn from loop.

Fig. V is a side view of the appliance ready for use, the sheath beingpartly withdrawn. 7

Fig. VI is a front view of the appliance ready for use, the sheath beingfully withdrawn.

Fig. VII is a front view of the appliance, with sheath partly withdrawn.

Fig. VIII shows the appliance in position, fully distended, sheathwithdrawn, and inclosing a transverse sectional view of the penis torepresent the anatomical structure of that organ.

' Referring in detail to the drawings, the appliance consists of anovate ring, or loop, Fig. I, and a sheath, Fig. II, both made of fine,soft rubber of perfect flexibility and resiliency. The loop, Fig. I, isprovided with a groove a, and terminates in a flattened knob b. Thesheath, Fig. II, is hollow throughout and of uniform thickness, exceptat the edge of the open end, and at the neck (1, where it is reinforcedto a thickness double that of the walls of the body 0,, and the e tersPatent.

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closed end 6. When the sheath is in position on the loop, the neck 03fits tightly and permanently the groove a of the loop, and the closedend e of the sheathsnugly covers the knob b, the whole then presentingthe finished appearance shown in Fig. III.

- It is evident'that this construction readily permits the body of thesheath to be drawn down over the knob as far as the neck of the sheath,and entirely off the loop, until it occupies the position shown in Fig.IV,-

being then wrong side out. In order to. replace the sheath in itsposition on the loop, 1t is only required to compress the sides of theloop between the fingers and thumb of one hand, as at g 9, Fig. IV, andthen gently press the body of the sheath back over the knob until itagain occupies the position shown in Fig. III, or any intermediateposltion, as in Fig. V. By such means, that is, through the moving ofthe sheath up or down on the loop, the opening of the loop may be madeof any desired size.

In my invention the shape of the loop is of fundamental importance. Themale generative organ, or penis, being composed interiorly of threeparallel, cylindrical masses 7 of erectile tissue, Fig. VIII, 4;, is ofsomewhat triangular shape in its transverse section, as shown in Fig.VIII, 2. Iiengthwise of the smallest of the three masses mentioned, runsthe urethra, u, through which the seminal fluid is ejected in asuccession of involuntary spurts when the sexual act is at its climax.In order that ejection may take place normally, that is, withoutobstruction, there must be freedom from pressure against the urethral,or under, surface of the penis, provided the appliance is worn duringsexual intercourse, and not taken off prior to the act. To best obtainthis free--- dom from pressure I use, preferably an ovate loop, Fig. I,which provides adequate direct compression on the upper surface of theorgan, and on its sides, but which only indirectly affects the lowersurface, since it does not come in close contact with this part of thepenis, as will be made clear farther on in this specification. It isbecause of the freedom from direct pressure on the urethral surface thatthe wearing of my appliance during the entire act of coition isperfectly feasible.

Of great importance, also, is the fact that a loop designed like that Imake use of in my invention may be changed in shape and,

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' f f, that part of the loop be twisted between the fingers until thepoint has made a complete revolution in the direction indicated by thearrow, the torsion will cause the loop to assume the shape shown inFigs. V, VI and VII, and it will stay in this new shape until thetorsion treatment just described is reversed when the loop will againresume the flat form of Fig. I. In its new shape, induced by torsion,the longitudinal axis is no lon er a straight line, a: b, Fig; I, but a(1011 lo, or compound curve, as shown by the 'dotted line it h, Fig. V.Figs. VI and VII show front views of my appliance after torsion. As aresult the openin of the loop is now smaller, the sides are qultetightly compressed against each other and more rigid. The torsion hasthus reduced the size of the opening and brought the sides of the looptogether in favorable position to readily receive the sheath, as shownin Figs. VI and VII.

The object of the sheath is to regulate'the pressure exerted upon theorgan during erection through control of the size of the opening of theloop. Figs. V and VII show my appliance ready for use. With the penis ina more .or less flaccid state at the time of inserting it within theloop, the opening of the loop should be madeto corres 0nd in sizetherewith by moving the sheat up or down to a proper adjustment, thendraw the appliance over the organ until the loop fits closely againstthe body at the root of the penis. As the organ under the influence offunctional excitement becomes engorged *with blood and expands in size,the sheath should be pulled downward over the knob of the loop. It isevident that this gradual removal of the sheath permits a full distention of the loop and tends to maintain a uniform pressure upon thepenis while the erection progresses, and not to unduly compress theorgan at any time. Moreover,

when the erection is complete, and the loop fully distended, there willstill remain the open space at the V end of the loop, as shown in Fig.VIII, at 0, thus insuring freedom from pressure against the urethralsurface, as has already been explained. Furthermore at the time of afull erection, it is an easy matter to entirely remove the appliance ifdesired. Incidentally it is worth of note that the construction of myappliance is such that it fits snugly and inconspicuously against thebody at the root of the penis, and this advantage is largely due to t 1etorsion of the loop which induces a clinging, backward-pressing tendencyto the whole appliance; and it is also deserving of mention that thereis nothing whatever about my appliance that can entangle the of theirlength drawn closely together with considerable lateral pressure, butpermitting, nevertheless, the full distention of the loop, in whichstate the angle, or V, end is always farther from the center of thecircular outline of the fully distended appliance viewed as a whole,than are the other parts of the circumference thereof; and incombination therewith, an adjustable sheath, also of rubher, attached tothe V end of the loop, by means of which the opening of the loop may beenlarged, or reduced, at the will of the wearer, and while the applianceis in use, all substantially as and for the purposes described herein. I

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

HENRY ARTHUR DYGERT. Witnesses:

W. F. ROBINSON, P. L. HILDEBRAND.

